Flip Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 The two first (out of three) to win the World Cup as both player and manager passing away with just a few days apart. Giants of the game! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Icon of the game. Would have loved to have seen him play Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 31 minutes ago, Flip said: The two first (out of three) to win the World Cup as both player and manager passing away with just a few days apart. Giants of the game! In every way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 37 minutes ago, Flip said: The two first (out of three) to win the World Cup as both player and manager passing away with just a few days apart. Giants of the game! Great rivalry between Beckenbauer and Bobby Charlton too on the international stage, both gone within a couple of months Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Knew of him before I knew anything about him. Our PE teacher in middle school would always be shouting at someone 'who do you think you are, Beckenbauer?' When trying to do something clever. RIP. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Bailey Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 1 hour ago, 54 said: The greatest ever for me. What a player. RIP Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinny Green Balls Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Oh fuck. One of my earliest football memories was watching him and Cruyff play in the NASL and meeting them after the game. A larger than life player whose reading of the game was second to none. One of the five greatest of all time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Geordie Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 RIP to a legendary footballer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfcastle Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 The intro to Italia 90, my first World Cup, on ITV had a football spinning around and the icons of previous world cup on the panels: Charlton, Pele, Beckenbauer, Cruyff, Rossi, Maradona and we've lost them all in a head-spinningly short space of time Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBottle Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 RIP Der Kaiser Deschamps must be bricking it atm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBottle Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 6 hours ago, joeyt said: Great rivalry between Beckenbauer and Bobby Charlton too on the international stage, both gone within a couple of months Sky Sports Gold wasn’t worth watching most of the time - but the first ever programme on it was Bobby Charlton’s Football Scrapbook (?) [memory might have programme name wrong] where he watched an old game with a former player. First one was Charlton and Beckenbauer watching the 1966 WC Final. It was like a director’s commentary in a studio. Not sure if it ever made its way to YouTube - I had it on VHS which would have been in a dump somewhere in Northumberland for a couple of decades Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cronky Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 At international level, he started off in central midfield, and then became a sweeper, playing behind an orthodox centre back. I don't think he had to put in many tackles from there, but could control the game from behind his team mates. (That probably wouldn't work in modern football) That's my recollection, anyway. Another one of my near-contemporaries gone. (Sigh) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 For those of us who grew up in the 70s and 80s, he was an absolute giant of the game, a rolls royce of a player and a colossus off the pitch. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Mel Blyth (fella who destroyed Tony Green's career) has passed away. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 1 minute ago, Optimistic Nut said: Mel Blyth (fella who destroyed Tony Green's career) has passed away. How did he destroy his career ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Spaceman Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 My dad reckons it was a guy called Tony Want Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 2 minutes ago, Ben said: How did he destroy his career ? Was it not him that crippled him? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 16 minutes ago, Optimistic Nut said: Was it not him that crippled him? Nee idea, I've never even heard of him Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 First World Cup Final I can remember (just turning 6). RIP Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andycap Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 Lucky goal against England with the deflection of Paul parker. But still a canny player. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andycap Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 9 minutes ago, Optimistic Nut said: First World Cup Final I can remember (just turning 6). RIP I was 11 I think it was my first worldcup memories. Seen bits of the Mexico worldcup but wasn't a fan then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Ex Porto manager and top moustachio Arthur Jorge has died at 78. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miggys First Goal Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 QPR and Man City’s Stan Bowles has died at the age of 75. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Bailey Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 Great player. One of the mavericks of the era Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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